She's the life of a Nazi mayhem party.-From the splash of the Black Angel feature in Air Fighters Comics 3 (1942). Reprinted in Eclipse's Air Fighter Classics 2 (1988).

December 25, 2006

The First Day of Christmas (2006)

Yes, Treadmillers, it's that time again. Time for us to clog your Internets' pipes, overload your browsers, and otherwise create a traffic jam on the information superhighway. Without further ado, here starts the Twelve Days of Christmas, Comic Treadmill Style. We'd like to think of it as, as our cover today says, "an epic for our times." But it could be a trainwreck. We won't know for about two weeks, will we?

The Twelve Days of Christmas

On the first day of Christmas, the Treadmill gave to me…

A New God drawn by Kirby.

Today's cover of the festively attired Orion is brought to you, of course, by Jack Kirby, and the GCD. Whether you like The New Gods or not (Scipio, we're thinking of youhere), Kirby's work at DC marked a real period of experimentation for the company. We've got fond memories of the books.

Merry Christmas (2006)

The Comic Treadmill wishes you and yours a very Merry Christmas!

What did Santa leave under the tree for you, loyal Treadmillers? Why, it's a bunch of covers from the GCD again. Santa lacks imagination. But you have to take what you get, so here goes our 2006 Christmas cover tour.

First up is Uncle Scrooge with the true meaning of Christmas:

Donald may have a better grip on the Christmas spirit, but with decorating fun like this, I doubt it. Frankly, I've been there (remind me to tell you about the time I fell off a ladder while my wife was busy talking on the phone and not paying attention to the person decorating the tree):

Perhaps things will go better once the kids are more involved:

Maybe not. What do you expect from family? We've all been there.

You'd think things would get settle down once the company arrived, but you'd be wrong:

Been there, too.

Things look reasonably mellow if you remove Donald from the scene:

It wouldn't be a Treadmill Christmas without superheroes. Reusing an image from last year, here's a gigantic, evil Santa. Remember, kids, Santa is Satan spelled sideways:

Well, it looks like Santa pressed our heroes into a bit of slave labor by faking illness:

And then, the Terrible Trio decide to spend the holidays breaking and entering:

Things aren't going to go well if that kid wakes up.

Enough of the heroes, let's get back to duck abuse. Here Donald forces the kids into bizarre reindeer games, much to his chagrin: